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October 04, 2018

AMA Drone Report 10.04.18: Good/Bad News About FAA Reauthorization, FAI Drone Races

Also: ParaZero FAA Waiver, Drone-Balloon Collision, Drone Operator Cited, Mavic 2 Pro

FAA Reauthorization is all but a done deal now... awaiting all but a certain signature from the President. And now... the work begins in earnest... because the model aviation community had some wins and some losses in this massive 1200 page bill. First... let’s look at the good news. And... here comes the bad news about Reauthorization... in which a few aeronautically ignorant elected officials decided to side with the commercial droners against the hundreds of thousands of model aviators that have helped build the world of aviation up to where it is today. There is just one month to go before the first FAI World Drone Racing Championships kicks-off in Shenzhen, China. Some 115 of the wor

Thales Alenia Space Delivers A Key Element For ESA's Exomars 2020 Mission

The Inertial Measurement Unit Will Enable The Rover's Navigation On Mars

Thales Alenia Space in the U.K. has achieved the major milestone of delivering its IMU Flight Models to Airbus Defence and Space in U.K. for integration with the ExoMars Rover. Exomars is a project under international cooperation between ESA and Roscosmos (Russian Space Agency), Thales Alenia Space, Joint Venture between Thales and Leonardo is the prime contractor for the global program.

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